Bose Public Affairs and Taft Stettinius & Hollister have the largest lobbying presence of any law firms or independent multi-client lobbying practices this year at the Indiana General Assembly, which kicked off its 2025 legislative session last week. See our list of the top 10.
It appears from the flurry of proposed bills filed before the start of the Indiana General Assembly, lawmakers will be focused on trying to improve fiscal responsibility in 2025.
Beyond the issues, the political dynamics will also be interesting to watch, as Gov. Mike Braun navigates his first session from the second floor of the Statehouse.
Lawmakers want to make it easier for candidates in primary elections to name election observers, also known as poll watchers.
After a year of public scrutiny of the Indiana Economic Development Corp.’s operations, state lawmakers have filed bills seeking to increase transparency and oversight at the agency.
One year after Indiana policymakers enacted a law requiring pornography websites to verify users’ ages, a new bill seeks to further restrict Hoosiers under age 16 from creating social media accounts without “verified” parental permission.
Property tax reform, Medicaid adjustments and water withdrawals are among the top priorities of the Indiana Senate Republicans’ 2025 platform, party leaders announced Wednesday.
More than 400 pieces of legislation had been filed so far as the Indiana General Assembly launched its annual legislative session on Wednesday.
The four other school districts that would be disbanded are: Gary Community Schools, Tri-Township Consolidated Schools in LaPorte County, Union Schools southeast of Muncie, and Cannelton City Schools near the Kentucky border in Perry County.
State legislators are expected to spend the next four months hashing out how much money to make available for K-12 base funding, as well as allocations that could affect teacher pay, summer school and math and literacy tutoring.
Lawmakers will convene Wednesday to begin drafting the state’s next two-year budget, determining how to spend approximately $44 billion dollars to fund government services such as schools, health insurance programs and infrastructure as well as tackling other fiscal issues.
When it comes to government transparency laws, Indiana often ranks near the bottom in terms of what it requires public officials and political activists to disclose.
What little new revenue is expected over the next two years likely will be swallowed up by Medicaid costs as lawmakers work to craft the state’s next budget.
A biennial budget of more than $40 billion is on the line come January, alongside hundreds of other proposals from Indiana lawmakers. Just a fraction become law. How do we get there?
Indiana lawmakers are preparing to write the next state budget, and as an economic surplus winds down, they face difficult decisions about what education programs to fund and how much to give them.
After Sen. Greg Taylor of Indianapolis denied three new sexual harassment allegations, he was replaced as Senate minority leader by Sen. Shelli Yoder of Bloomington.
Notably, the study found the priorities are shared across political affiliations, according to Dr. Kevin Smith, interim director of the Bowen Center and associate dean of Ball State’s College of Sciences and Humanities.
Incumbent Republican Rep. Becky Cash of Zionsville barely kept her seat earlier this month, winning by 64 votes.
On Dec. 18, Dentons 33rd Annual Legislative Conference will help lobbyists, policymakers and others prepare for the financial push and pull that every budget-writing legislative session brings.
Indiana’s revenues are down as tax collections continue to lag behind estimates, according to November’s state revenue report. Projections are based on analysis from December 2023 and due for an update next month.